Zimplats Holdings Limited, Zimbabwe's largest platinum producer, has recorded a 3,376% increase in profit after tax to US$143.7 million from US$4.1 million in the comparative period, according to the

On the 28th of February 2026, the world changed. A massive wave of US and Israeli airstrikes tore across Iran in what President Donald Trump described as a bid to permanently destroy the country's nuc

The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA), which sets legally binding ceiling prices for fuel every month, has announced its latest adjustments effective from the start of March 2026. Petrol (E

Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Zhemu Soda has said Zimbabwe holds between two and three months of fuel reserves and that the country's supply position remains secure desp

Shortly after 1:15 a.m. Eastern Time on 28 February 2026, the United States Central Command initiated what it would later name Operation Epic Fury , a coordinated, large-scale joint offensive with Isr

Zimbabwe's platinum giant Zimplats Holdings Limited has posted the most striking half-year financial transformation, turning what was barely a rounding error in profit twelve months ago into a war che

Harare- Oil prices have crossed US$100 per barrel for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Brent crude, the global benchmark, surged well past US$100 when energy markets opened yesterd

Zimbabwe's 2026 tobacco marketing season opened last week and six days in, every headline metric, from volume, value, price, and quality  is running well below last year. A bearish opening, shaped by

The International Energy Agency is reportedly preparing what would be the largest emergency oil reserve release in its history, up to 400 million as early as today. If confirmed, it would be double th

Buy Zimbabwe, an advocate for promoting local production and reducing reliance on imports, says Zimbabwe should deepen its domestic fuel supply chains to shield the economy from global volatility. Th

South Africa's current account balance delivered a striking reversal in the fourth quarter of 2025, swinging from a revised deficit of R72 billion in the third quarter to a surplus of R50.2 billion, t

Ghana has pressed ahead with a new sliding-scale gold royalty regime that links state revenues to rising bullion prices, the head of its mining regulator confirmed to Reuters, defying a rare joint dip

The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority raised fuel prices on 18 March 2026, pushing diesel to $2.05 per litre and petrol blend to $2.17 per litre,  increases of 15.8% and 26.9% respectively on the p

The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board has released a formal penalty schedule for illegal tobacco activities as Zimbabwe's 2026 flue-cured Virginia season gets underway, with merchants caught buying

Zimbabwe's 2026 flue-cured virginia tobacco marketing season is ten days old, and the early data presents a picture that requires careful reading. By Day 10 to 17 March, the Tobacco Industry and Mark

Zimbabwe's petrol blend carries an embedded cost that most consumers see only as the final pump price but rarely interrogate as an individual line item. That cost is ethanol. The Zimbabwe Energy Regul

Copper has extended its bruising decline to the lowest level in more than three months , as the deepening war in the Middle East drained risk appetite from financial markets and sharpened worries abo

Thungela Resources, one of South Africa’s largest coal exporters, swung into a R7.1 billion loss for the year ended December 2025 from a R3.5 billion profit recorded in the prior year according to the

Zimbabwe's Monetary Policy Committee has flagged that monthly inflation will increase slightly in March, April, and May 2026, before returning to steady-state levels from June 2026 according th the la

Cabinet's seventh post-cabinet press briefing of 2026, delivered on 24 March, has covered a wide sweep of policy approvals from tourism development in the Eastern Highlands to bilateral memoranda with